Explaining mental phenomena with internal representations. A mechanistic perspective

dc.contributor.authorGładziejewski, Paweł
dc.date.accessioned2018-11-06T09:08:52Z
dc.date.available2018-11-06T09:08:52Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.description.abstractDespite the fact that the notion of internal representation has – at least according to some – a fundamental role to play in the sciences of the mind, not only has its explanatory utility been under attack for a while now, but it also remains unclear what criteria should an explanation of a given cognitive phenomenon meet to count as a (truly, genuinely, nontrivially, etc.) represen- tational explanation in the first place. The aim of this article is to propose a solution to this latter problem. I will assume that representational explanations should be construed as a form of mechanistic explanations and proceed by proposing a general sketch of a functional architecture of a representational cognitive mechanism. According to the view on offer here, representational mechanisms are mechanisms that meet four conditions: the structural resemblance condition, the action-guidance condition, the decouplability condition, and the error-detection condition.pl
dc.identifier.citationStudies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric vol. 40 (53), 2015, pp. 63 - 90pl
dc.identifier.isbn978-83-7431-440-4
dc.identifier.issn0860-150X
dc.identifier.urihttp://repozytorium.umk.pl/handle/item/5460
dc.language.isoengpl
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.subjectmechanistic explanationpl
dc.subjectrepresentationalismpl
dc.subjectantirepresentationalismpl
dc.subjectemulation theorypl
dc.subjectpredictive codingpl
dc.subjectstructural representationpl
dc.titleExplaining mental phenomena with internal representations. A mechanistic perspectivepl
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articlepl

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